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‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky
The GuardianFactual
Roughly 2,000 civilians remaining in Russian-occupied Oleshky are starving after food supplies ran out in May, with residents surviving on one daily meal of potato-free soup made from courgettes and foraged weeds. Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha told the UN general assembly that Russia is deliberately starving the city's residents to death, while the Kremlin acknowledged a "critical situation" but blamed Ukrainian forces for blocking aid. Expanding minefields and drone cover have halted deliveries, and attempts to drop food by drone have largely failed because Russian soldiers seize the supplies.
